McGill top Canadian university according to new international rankings

McGill University maintained its position as the top-ranked Canadian university in the world even if it dropped down a few notches in the overall standings released in this year’s QS World University Rankings.

Three Canadian universities placed within the top 50 of the survey compiled by the service based in London. According to a statement it issued Monday, it bases its methodology on six indicators including academic reputation, employer reputation and faculty-to-student ratio.

McGill ranked 24th among the 3,539 institutions considered for inclusion this year, which actually represented a slight drop, from 21st last year. The University of Toronto finished 34th and the University of British Columbia placed 50th. Both of those universities dropped several spots in the rankings compared to last year. Université de Montréal also dropped, from 83rd last year to 115th this year. QS attributed a new methodology used for this year’s survey as the reason for the drop in the international rankings for Canada’s top universities. The change includes a modified approach in how it measures citations per faculty, a way of assessing research impact.

Ranking

University

1

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2

Harvard University

3

University of Cambridge

4

Stanford University

5

California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

6

University of Oxford

7

UCL (University College London)

8

Imperial College London

9

ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

10

University of Chicago

11

Princeton University

12

National University of Singapore (NUS)

13

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

14

EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne)

15

Yale University

16

Johns Hopkins University

17

Cornell University

18

University of Pennsylvania

19

Kings College London

19

The Australian National University

21

The University of Edinburgh

22

Columbia University

23

Ecole normale supérieure, Paris

24

McGill University

25

Tsinghua University

Despite the change in methodology, Concordia University’s place increased significantly. This year’s survey places it in a grouping ranked between 411 and 420. Last year it placed in a group rated between 461 and 470.

The top-ranked university in the world was the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by Harvard University and the University of Cambridge.

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